How Ranchers Are Using Apps to Track Livestock and Fields

By Hekitari Team · July 1, 2026

Livestock farming has as many moving parts as cropping — and just as much to gain from software that tracks every animal and acre.

Livestock farmers use apps to replace guesswork with records — tracking each animal's health, breeding, and profitability while monitoring the land that feeds them. Hekitari's Livestock Management System turns breeding managed by memory into an automated calendar with pregnancy tracking and calving alerts, and calculates per-animal profitability, including cost per litre, automatically.

What a livestock app tracks

Digital animal records that replace paper logbooks
An automated breeding calendar with pregnancy and calving alerts
Per-animal profitability, including cost per litre for dairy
Satellite and weather intelligence for the pastures and fields

Land and livestock in one platform

Because Hekitari covers both crops and animals, a mixed farm manages pasture health, weather, and herd records in one place. For dairy cooperatives especially, role-based access and organisation-level oversight make it possible to manage many farmers and many animals without losing the detail on any single one.